Taliban stops Afghan girls from leaving to review overseas
Some 100 girls have been provided funded locations on the college by the Al Habtoor Group however many have been stopped on the airport by Taliban officers and prevented from boarding their flight to Dubai.
Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor, chair of the group, posted a video on X (previously Twitter), criticising the Taliban’s resolution.
“They refused them to board their aircraft and already we have now paid for his or her plane,” he mentioned.
“Now we have organised all the pieces for them right here, lodging, remedy, transportation, safety all the pieces.”
I’m unable to specific the frustration I really feel now as The Afghan feminine college students, whom I had offered an academic scholarship in collaboration with the @uniofdubai offered by Dr. Eesa Al Bastaki @ebastaki, have been sadly unable to succeed in #DubaiAirport this morning to… pic.twitter.com/gJK9dB2yTf
— Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor (@KhalafAlHabtoor) August 23, 2023
The video additionally features a voice word from an Afghan lady who was prevented from boarding her flight to Dubai.
“I don’t know what to do, please assist us,” she mentioned. “We’re so involved about this matter.”
Writing on X, Al Habtoor mentioned the Taliban’s interference had “left me misplaced for phrases to explain the frustration I presently really feel”.
That is the most recent in a string of actions by the Taliban stopping girls and women from accessing schooling, together with barring girls from attending college in 2022.
The incident has provoked worldwide outrage from campaigners and human rights teams.
“This feels just like the door slamming shut”
Heather Barr, affiliate director of the ladies’s rights division at Human Rights Watch, described the ban as “notably painful.”
Talking on the BBC, Barr mentioned, “We’ve completed analysis on the state of affairs women who’ve been pushed out of secondary faculty are dealing with and one of many issues we’ve heard from them is likely one of the small tiny shreds of hope that retains them going from each day is the dream that in the future they may have the ability to get a scholarship and examine outdoors of the nation and this feels just like the door slamming shut”.
In a press release on X, Amnesty Worldwide condemned the Taliban’s resolution, calling it a “flagrant violation of the fitting to schooling and freedom of motion”.
“The Taliban de-facto authorities should instantly reverse their resolution and permit these feminine college students to journey and examine,” the group mentioned.
